Dictionary entry details
• CORRECT (adjective)
Meaning:
Free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
Synonyms:
correct; right
Context examples:
the correct answer / the correct version / the right answer / took the right road / the right decision
Similar:
accurate; exact; precise ((of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct)
letter-perfect; word-perfect (correct to the last detail; especially being in or following the exact words)
straight (following a correct or logical method)
Also:
true (consistent with fact or reality; not false)
proper (marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness)
accurate (conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy)
Attribute:
correctness; rightness (conformity to fact or truth)
Antonym:
incorrect (not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth)
Meaning:
Socially right or correct
Synonyms:
correct; right
Context examples:
it isn't right to leave the party without saying goodbye / correct behavior
Similar:
proper (marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness)
Meaning:
In accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
Synonyms:
correct; right
Context examples:
what's the right word for this? / the right way to open oysters
Similar:
proper (marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness)
Meaning:
Correct in opinion or judgment
Synonyms:
correct; right
Context example:
time proved him right
Similar:
right-minded (disposed toward or having views based on what is right)
• CORRECT (verb)
Meaning:
Make right or correct
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
correct; right; rectify
Context examples:
Correct the mistakes / rectify the calculation
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "correct"):
amend; rectify; remediate; remedy; repair (set straight or right)
debug (locate and correct errors in a computer program code)
Sentence frames:
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Antonym:
falsify (falsify knowingly)
Meaning:
Make reparations or amends for
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
right; redress; correct; compensate
Context example:
right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "correct"):
over-correct; overcompensate (make excessive corrections for fear of making an error)
aby; abye; atone; expiate (make amends for)
Sentence frames:
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Meaning:
Censure severely
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
chastise; chasten; castigate; objurgate; correct
Context example:
She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
bawl out; berate; call down; call on the carpet; chew out; chew up; chide; dress down; have words; jaw; lambast; lambaste; lecture; rag; rebuke; remonstrate; reprimand; reproof; scold; take to task; trounce (censure severely or angrily)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "correct"):
flame (criticize harshly, on the e-mail)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Adjust for
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
even up; even out; even off; counterbalance; compensate; correct; make up
Context example:
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "correct"):
carry (compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance)
compensate; cover; overcompensate (make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities)
Sentence frame:
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Meaning:
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
discipline; sort out; correct
Context example:
The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
penalise; penalize; punish (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Go down in value
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
slump; correct; decline
Context examples:
the stock market corrected / prices slumped
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
Sentence frame:
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Meaning:
Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
adjust; correct; set
Context examples:
Adjust the clock, please / correct the alignment of the front wheels
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "correct"):
modulate; regulate (fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of)
focalise; focalize; focus; sharpen (put (an image) into focus)
sync; synchronise; synchronize (make synchronous and adjust in time or manner)
pressurise; pressurize (increase the pressure in or of)
decompress; depressurise; depressurize (decrease the pressure of)
fit; match (make correspond or harmonize)
plumb (adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical)
align; coordinate; ordinate (bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation)
harmonise; harmonize; reconcile (bring into consonance or accord)
linearise; linearize (make linear or get into a linear form)
justify (adjust the spaces between words)
citify (accustom to urban ways)
set (set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly)
time (regulate or set the time of)
proportion (adjust in size relative to other things)
modulate (adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of)
temper (adjust the pitch (of pianos))
tune; tune up (adjust the pitches of (musical instruments))
calibrate; fine-tune; graduate (make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring)
tune; tune up (adjust for (better) functioning)
time (adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time)
attune (adjust or accustom to; bring into harmony with)
readjust; reset (adjust again after an initial failure)
zero (adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value)
zero; zero in (adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun))
trim (adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used)
Sentence frames:
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Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Treat a defect
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Context example:
The new contact lenses will correct for his myopia
Hypernyms (to "correct" is one way to...):
care for; treat (provide treatment for)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s something
